Chuck Ward

Chuck is one of the most experienced Americans in actual plant floor implementation of the Toyota Production System in various environments. Chuck worked for Toyota Georgetown as a production supervisor in the Plastics Shop and later as an assistant manager in the Powertrain Plant. But his most intensive education in TPS came at TSSC where Chuck was a senior TPS consultant leading North American companies through highly successful plant floor lean projects. Since leaving Toyota in 1996, Chuck has led numerous projects, including an immense Lean initiative at one of the Big Three where he was lead consultant managing a team of 45 consultant-implementers.